vault-like

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1. alternativeAlternative form of vaultlike.

   The up and down lines ran next to each other in vault-like tunnels, whereas the Tube trains would occupy their own tunnels.

   2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 35

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   Thus furniſhed with the means of finding their way, they deſcended to the kitchen, an immenſe vault-like room, where the almoſt famiſhed wretch, fortunately, found enough to appeaſe the hunger that devoured him: […]

   1794, Charlotte Smith, chapter VII, in The Banished Man. […], volume III, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, (successors to Mr. [Thomas] Cadell) […], →OCLC, page 141

   The cellar was a vault-like dungeon of a place, built solidly of brick, with only a narrow, barred window and the door from the kitchen opening into it.

   1895, Howard Pyle, “The Struggle”, in The Story of Jack Ballister’s Fortunes, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., page 159